Emmys: Rami Malek Wins Best Actor in a Drama Series

"Please tell me you're seeing this, too," Malek joked as he took the stage to accept the first Emmy of his career, a reference to his anti-social character, Elliot.

Mr.Robot's Rami Malek won the Emmy for best actor in a drama series on Sunday night.

"Please tell me you're seeing this, too," Malek joked as he took the stage to accept the first Emmy of his career, a reference to his anti-social character, Elliot. This was the actor's first Emmy nomination.

Backstage, Malek said he was "waiting to hear someone else's name," when his category came up. "When I heard my name, I said, 'Do not move, because it wasn't you.' And then faces started to turn towards me. I must have looked like I was in shock," he said.

"The emotion just poured on me," he said, after he went backstage. "[I was hugging Jimmy Kimmel and crying at the same time and just trying not to get anything on his suit," he recalled. "This is a moment that obviously will be etched in my memory and if not, I think I can replay it on a television set every once in awhile, but I think I would be ridiculous doing that so I won't."

More seriously, Malek praised the inclusive nature of TV. "For me to be standing here, not the typical leading man, to have come home with this speaks a lot about where we're headed and I think we can just keep gong further in that direction," he said.

"I grew up in a family that immigrated here and my dad worked door to door to sell insurance and my mom was pregnant with my brother and I going to work, taking three buses going to work so that they would give their children opportunity to be special. … I wanted an opportunity and now I have it."

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, which aired live on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

A complete list of winners can be found here. The winners for the Creative Arts Emmys, which were handed out last weekend over two nights, can be found here.